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Seasonal Forests

Planet Earth

Run Time: mins

Air Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006

Average Rating: ⭐ 8 (21 votes)

BBC One

Season 1 - Episode 10

Seasonal Forests

Average Rating: ⭐ 8 (21)

Trees are Earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) are the largest land habitats. A third of all trees grow in the endless taiga of the Arctic north. Northern America has forests that include California's sequoias, the Earth's largest trees. There and elsewhere, their vast production of photosynthesis and shade presides over a seasonal cycle of life and involves countless plant and animal species.

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